General ⇒ Cross-referencing in glossaries

[Almad]

Hi,

I'm trying to use glossaries.sty with my LaTeX. Everything works fine, except for cross-referencing entries. Even documentation example fails:

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\newglossaryentry{peanut}{name=peanut,
description={my definition}
}
 
\newglossaryentry{apple}{name=apple,
description={firm, round fruit. See also \gls{peanut}}}

in external file loaded with \loadglsentries{definice} fails with

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! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 7.
<inserted text>
                \fi
l.48 \loadglsentries{definice}

Any idea about cause?

I'm using glossaries 2.01 with texlive 2008 on gentoo.

Thanks,

Almad

[nlct]

Can you provide a minimal example? I can't reproduce the error.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[Almad]

Can you provide a minimal example? I can't reproduce the error.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

Yes, I can.

Main document:

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almad@namtar ~/tmp/latexex $ cat example.tex
\documentclass[11pt,twoside,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[xindy,style=altlistgroup,sanitize=none,toc]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\loadglsentries{definitions}


\begin{document}

Hello, \gls{apple}

\end{document}

Definitions:

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almad@namtar ~/tmp/latexex $ cat definitions.tex

\newglossaryentry{peanut}{name=peanut,
description={my definition}
}

\newglossaryentry{apple}{name=apple,
description={firm\, round fruit. See also \gls{peanut}}}

Command and output:

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almad@namtar ~/tmp/latexex $ pdflatex example
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./example.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, pinyin, bulgarian, russian, ukrainian, czech, slovak, ukenglish, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk11.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossaries.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/mfirstuc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xfor/xfor.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossary-hypernav.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossary-list.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossary-long.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossary-super.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/supertabular/supertabular.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/glossaries/glossary-tree.sty))
(./definitions.tex)
! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 7.
<inserted text>
                \fi
l.4 \loadglsentries{definitions}

?

Command info:

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almad@namtar ~/tmp/latexex $ pdflatex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.9-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.7)
kpathsea version 3.5.7
Copyright 2008 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea is copyright 2008 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.

Compiled with libpng 1.2.35; using libpng 1.2.37
Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3
Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl2

EDIT: Ah-hem, it's not working even with comma properly escaped.

[nlct]

If you use sanitize=none, you need to protect fragile commands:

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\newglossaryentry{apple}{name=apple,
description={firm, round fruit. See also \protect\gls{peanut}}}

EDIT: Ah-hem, it's not working even with comma properly escaped.

\, is a spacing command. If the value contains a comma, all you need to do is ensure that the value is enclosed in braces (as above).

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[Almad]

Yup, this seems to work - thanks